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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update (fandomwire.com)
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Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here's the archive for the page https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

https://bsky.app/profile/lamhfada.bsky.social/post/3m2c3udxnjc2u

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They took our comments and reviews, now they're ruining subtitles, are delayed, etc. The arr stack is starting to be just as convenient if not more.

Lord Gaben said it best, piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem (the people who couldn't afford it weren't going to buy it anyway).

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’re right about comments and reviews… I miss some of that. You’re also right quoting the old Gaben. But still… it seems we can’t keep any nice things for long :-/

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Has he actually changed his stance on piracy? I hadn't see anything to indicate that but maybe I'm mistaken.